Abstract
In general，“The Politics of Recognition” (1992) by Charles Taylor, who is from Quebec, Canada and one of the most important social philosophers in the contemporary English-speaking world, is known as the typical article about “multiculturalism”. Against these arguments, in Akedo(2009), I read Taylor's thought of linguistic community from the point of view of “Quebec nationalism” (not multiculturalism) and demonstrate that notwithstanding Taylor’s thought has the possibility of overcoming the limit of “nationalism”and rather supporting the “public sphere”. In this paper, I will reexamine the relation between Taylor’s thought of linguistic community and the arguments of the public sphere. Especially, I will make it clear that “recognition in the intimate sphere” has very important role in the Taylor's thought, and such arguments justify the “survival of community” in the political level. And then, I will point out that such Taylor’s thought is partly inconsistent with the arguments of the public sphere, and demonstrate that notwithstanding Taylor’s linguistic community and the public sphere can go together through the arguments of the “transformation of identity” and the “fusion of horizon”.
